"TRICK OR TREAT".......(This is the part where you give me candy)
I hope everyone is safe and "dried out" from the wonderful storm.
For this week's "corner" I'm going to be brief..... Here is the latest version of the CASLS Directory. I'm attaching it in PDF as well as Publisher formats.
We're two days away from the month that the President of the United States designates as Native American Month. Below are suggestions on howyou might get your library ready for parents, teachers and students whocome into your library looking for materials on American Indians. In this post, you'll find links to ALA's READ posters that feature Sherman Alexie, author of THE ABSOLUTELY TRUE DIARY OF A PART TIME INDIAN. You'l l also find links to the Indigenous Languages Development Institute, where you can buy a wall clock with numerals in a Native language, and READ posters in Indigenous languages, available from the Tulsa American Indian Resources Center: Creating a Library Atmosphere that Welcomes American Indians: http://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2012/10/creating-library-atmosphere-that.html
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"TRICK OR TREAT".......(This is the part where you give me candy)
I hope everyone is safe and "dried out" from the wonderful storm.
For this week's "corner" I'm going to be brief.....
Here is the latest version of the CASLS Directory. I'm attaching it in PDF as well as Publisher formats.
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We're two days away from the month that the President of the United States designates as Native American Month. Below are suggestions on howyou might get your library ready for parents, teachers and students whocome into your library looking for materials on American Indians. In this post, you'll find links to ALA's READ posters that feature Sherman Alexie, author of THE ABSOLUTELY TRUE DIARY OF A PART TIME INDIAN. You'l l also find links to the Indigenous Languages Development Institute, where you can buy a wall clock with numerals in a Native language, and READ posters in Indigenous languages, available from the Tulsa American Indian Resources Center: Creating a Library Atmosphere that Welcomes American Indians:
http://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2012/10/creating-library-atmosphere-that.html
In these posts, you'll find recommended books about American Indians, by age group:
Top Board Books
http://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2011/04/top-board-books-for-youngest-readers.html
Top Ten Books for Elementary School
http://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2010/07/top-ten-books-recommended-for.html
Top Ten Books for Middle School
http://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2010/07/top-ten-books-recommended-for-middle.html
Top Ten Books for High School
http://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2010/07/top-ten-books-recommended-for-high.html
If you want some guidance on how to help students do research on American Indians, using encyclopedias and websites, see Resources for Projects on American Indians
http://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2007/03/resources-for-american-indian-research.html
If you're looking for books and materials about boarding schools for American Indians, here's some:
Boarding Schools for American Indians
http://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2008/02/as-more-resources-and-books-are.html
If you want guidelines on how to evaluate the content of a Native site, here's an excellent page about that: Guidelines for Evaluating American Indian Web Sites
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~ecubbins/webcrit.html
And, if you want to develop your understandings of the ways that American Indians are not "multicultural" or "people of color", see: We Are Not "People of Color"
http://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/p/we-are-not-people-of-color.html
If you're looking for a Question/Answer book about American Indians, this one by the National Museum of the American Indian is outstanding :Do All Indians Live In Tipis?
http://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2007/10/do-all-indians-live-in-tipis.html
Did you know that "papoose" is not the American Indian word for baby? Papoose?
http://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2008/02/papoose.html
Brought to you by:
Debbie Reese, Ph.D
Tribally enrolled: Nambe Pueblo
Publisher of American Indians in Children's Literature<http://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.net>
Email: dreese.nambe@gmail.com